Mr. Michael Sheahan:

I will make a few comments on it. The Chairman mentioned the horse which was shown in the race at Fairyhouse and whose microchip apparently showed up some years later. From what I picked up from the programme, the system worked in that the animal was detected when something fraudulent was attempted. At least the system appeared to pick up the animal and it did not enter the food chain. I did not particularly pick up the point Deputy Carthy made about bute in the programme last night.

I will have to watch it again to see exactly what point he is making. We have said all along that if there are lessons to learn from the programme, we have only seen it once. We will look at whatever we can learn. My colleague, Mr. Drea, might comment on that.